Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another possibility is that the strenuous efforts made during the last few years to divert some of the flood at its source have had a tangible result. In contrast to the lean days of the past century when needy universities beat the publicity drums far and wide to attract customers to their displays of educational wares, the present attitude is distinctly diminuendo. College is a waste of time for many students; for a purely business career it has few practical uses; those who come for social reasons are an unmitigated evil. Such statements have become familiar to the reading public...
...major sport, too, is still untouched by this new class spirit. Track continues to attract its ten thousands, perhaps to a great extent by means of the ubiquitous intramural handicap meets. With a fertile field of enthusiasts already engaged in this sport, there is no reason why the coming spring should not carry the individualism of the handicap meet and medal through to its logical conclusion of team development. The throng of not-quite-first-stringers that are carried along semi-officially through the season is particularly large in this sport, which alone among the five major athletic activities offers...
...first snowfall in Cambridge may mean that to the ordinary hazards attendant upon crossing Harvard Square is added the possibility of drowning, but those brave enough to venture out before its remains disappear have several interesting lectures to attract them today. Chief among them will be the one by Professor Murdock on "James Fennimore Cooper". Cooper is an author whose popularity is not today all that it has been, but he still has a following among those who appreciate adventure stories. The lecture will be at 10 o'clock in Harvard...
...these is LaGuardia of New York, an irregular Republican, the smartest, most industrious gadfly. He knows parliamentary practice and can tie the House in knots with his motions and points of order. He rarely wins a fight but he always puts on a good show and his clever arguments attract considerable backing...
Figures at University Hall on the fields of concentration of the Class of 1931 show that Economics and English attract over 30 percent of the class each claiming...